Telugu Desam Party (TDP) headed by Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is said to be keen on contesting the upcoming by-election to the Jubilee Hills assembly seat, which has fallen vacant due to the sudden death of sitting MLA Maganti Gopinath.
As the Congress party at the national level has been raising a hue and cry over the alleged malpractices in the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the elections across the country, the YSR Congress party, too, joined the chorus on Thursday.
In a surprising development, an Andhra Pradesh high court judge openly commented in the court itself, stating that he is being trolled on social media for granting bails to the accused in various cases filed by the TDP-led coalition government against YSR Congress party leaders and others.
In a democracy, it is quite common for opposition parties to try and gain political mileage by launching attacks on the ruling party.
Former MLA Vallabhaneni Vamsi and his wife met YSR Congress Party chief and former Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday, shortly after Vamsi was released from jail.
The sudden U-turn by Lourdu Mary, wife of Cheeli Singaiah — who died after being run over by YSR Congress Party president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s convoy during his visit to Palnadu last month — has come as a shock to the Chandrababu Naidu-led government in Andhra Pradesh.
If the YSR Congress party’s legal fight yields any positive results, party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy is likely to get additional security cover during his proposed Nellore visit shortly.
If sources in the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA) are to be believed, the Amaravati Region Master Plan has not yet received formal approval from the state government.
The Kapu Reservation Porata Samithi (KRPS), formed by a group of Kapu leaders to lead the community's agitation — taking inspiration from the Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) headed by Manda Krishna Madiga — had planned to hold a massive rally in Vijayawada on June 29.
The Chandrababu Naidu government which is trying to trouble YSR Congress party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy for the death of Cheeli Singaiah by coming under the wheels of his car during his Palnadu tour last month, received a big jolt on Wednesday.
Andhra Pradesh IPS officer Siddharth Kaushal voluntarily resigned on Wednesday amid rumours of unease in a section of police officers over delays in postings, suspensions or transfers.
It is known that Chandrababu Naidu instructed all his MLAs and ministers who received invitations to the TANA event not to attend.
YSR Congress Party president and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday hinted at launching a statewide padayatra (foot march), not immediately, but ahead of the next assembly elections.
In a way, Tuesday was a day of relief for the YSR Congress party leaders and the party sympathisers, as they got a big relief from the courts in Andhra Pradesh, in connection with various cases.
In a major development in the Andhra Pradesh liquor scam case, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Tuesday took senior YSR Congress party leader and former MLA Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy and his associate Venkatesh Naidu into custody for interrogation.
